. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 394 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. YELLOW/LEGS. A. O. U- No. 255. (Totanusflavlpes.)) RANGE. Found throughout North America. Except for an occasional pair that remain to breed in the central portions of the United States, they breed north of our borders. DESCRIPTIONS. Length about 10 in.; extent, 20 in.; tail, in. Except for size, the Lesser Yellow-legs is identical in plumage to the Greater Yellow-legs. Upperparts blackish, or dark grayish, specked with white; head and neck streaked with white and gray. Upper tail coverts mostly white; tail barred with
. American bird magazine, ornithology. Birds. 394 AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGY. YELLOW/LEGS. A. O. U- No. 255. (Totanusflavlpes.)) RANGE. Found throughout North America. Except for an occasional pair that remain to breed in the central portions of the United States, they breed north of our borders. DESCRIPTIONS. Length about 10 in.; extent, 20 in.; tail, in. Except for size, the Lesser Yellow-legs is identical in plumage to the Greater Yellow-legs. Upperparts blackish, or dark grayish, specked with white; head and neck streaked with white and gray. Upper tail coverts mostly white; tail barred with white; underparts white, streaked on the breast and flanks with dusky, generally in the shape of arrowheads. The winter plumage varies but little from the summer, being somewhat lighter on the back and with fainter breast markings. NEST AND EGGS, Yellow-legs nest about the 1st of June, laying their three or four eggs in a tuft of grass, within which a few dried grasses have been wound in the semblance of a nest. The eggs have a grayish or buff background and are boldly blotched with varying shades of brown with fainter shell markings of lilac. 'r. HABITS. These birds are chiefly migrants within the United States, large num- bers of them passing through in the fall and fewer returning to their breeding grounds in the spring. Those that neglect to return with their comrades on the march northwards are the luckless individuals that have fallen victims to the aim of the sportsmen, for these waders are among those that are much sought by those who delight in killing. They travel in flocks, sometimes in company with their larger and al- most identical relative, the Greater Yellow-legs. They are easily called to decoys by an imitation of their whistle. The hunter who is con- cealed behind a blind, waits until the flock is about to settle among the crude decoys which are perched out on the sand, and then'_:with*a well directed shot, kills or maims sometimes several at a time. Very oft
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